I started daily driving Linux since I left school this year and used it before but mainly windows because school wanted us to run Word, Teams, etc. Today I wanted to play games and haven’t set up my device for gaming and didn’t want to download the game twice (good internet). Like a good PC user I wanted to do my updates. It really sucks on windows. I had three windows updates to make, one crashed. It rebooted my device 4 times. Also I needed to update other drivers and applications. Now I really appreciate package managers more than ever before.

  • @om1k
    88•11 months ago

    Before switching to Linux I used to think: “Linux users really use the terminal to install apps?? So archaic”. Now I can’t be more grateful of being able to install everything from the terminal.

    • andrewEnglish
      28•11 months ago

      And all in one place, for nearly every app. No figuring out where app X hides its self updater or whether I need to use the help menu or just go straight to the webpage for a download.

    • @Grass@geddit.social
      14•11 months ago

      I can’t even bring myself to use the gui update tools on distros that have them. It just feels like doing anything with extra weight strapped on to every limb.

        • @Grass@geddit.social
          2•11 months ago

          Opensuse and a couple other distros I tested can do this too right out of the notification panel which is thankfully easy enough for my parents and grandparents. I still end up using the “quake style terminal” most of the time and just flatpak through the notification sometimes.

        • @irmoz@reddthat.com
          2•11 months ago

          Nobara has a similar tool. Now when i see the package manager’s update icon in the tray, I just hit the update script instead.

          • @russjr08@outpost.zeuslink.netEnglish
            1•11 months ago

            I’m on Fedora Silverblue (via uBlue), get the best of both worlds which is quite nice - I run just update in a terminal and it updates the system image (and any rpm-ostree overrides), updates all Flatpaks, and then for all of my Distrobox containers it runs that distro’s package manager update command.

            Never got a chance to use Mint’s update tool, and was only on Nobara for a couple of days, so its been nice to finally be able to experience a nice “all-in-one updater”.

    • @AngryDemonoid@lemmy.lylapol.com
      8•11 months ago

      Almost every time I use Windows, i hit F12 to try and pull down Yakuake to do something quick, and I get annoyed every time. Now that i’m more comfortable with it, the terminal is just better for a lot of things.